French · Seconde (first year of lycée)

Private tutoring in French for Seconde (first year of lycée)

Seconde (the first year of lycée) changes the nature of French: students no longer answer questions on a text, they build their own reading of it. Commentary and the essay appear, with their rules, and the topics studied, poetry, the novel, theatre, literature of ideas, lead directly to the French exams at the end of Première. This is the year when method has to take hold.

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In Seconde, a tutor who knows what the Première French exams expect helps the student adopt the right habits of method now, before Première picks up speed.

Manon

Soutien Scolaire de la primaire au lycée

New tutor5 years of experienceAccepting new students

Subject searched:: Français
Also:: Mathématiques · Physique-Chimie

+ 18 other subjects

SVT / Biologie · Anglais · Histoire-Géographie · Informatique / Programmation · Latin · Sciences de l'ingénieur · Allemand · SES · Culture générale · Aide aux devoirs · Méthodologie et organisation · Soutien scolaire général · NSI · Brevet · Orientation · BAC · TOEIC · TOEFL

Levels:: Primaire · Collège · Lycée · Adulte

€24 / hourAll-inclusive price, paid by the family. No hidden fees.

Léonard

Soutien scolaire toutes matières par un étudiant à HEC

New tutor5 years of experienceAccepting new students

Subject searched:: Français
Also:: Mathématiques · Physique-Chimie

+ 13 other subjects

Anglais · Histoire-Géographie · Informatique / Programmation · Espagnol · Chinois · Géopolitique · HGGSP · Aide aux devoirs · Méthodologie et organisation · Soutien scolaire général · Brevet · Orientation · BAC

Levels:: Primaire · Collège · Lycée · Licence / Master

€34 / hourAll-inclusive price, paid by the family. No hidden fees.

Philippine

Professeur de français et espagnol | +350 élèves déjà suivis

New tutor6 years of experienceAccepting new students

Subject searched:: Français
Also:: Espagnol · Brevet

+ 1 other subject

BAC

Levels:: Primaire · Collège · Lycée · Adulte · Licence / Master

€38 / hourAll-inclusive price, paid by the family. No hidden fees.

The curriculum

Why take tutoring in French for Seconde (first year of lycée)?

Topics covered

Textual commentary
Introduction to the essay
Poetry and versification
Theatre
Literature of ideas

What you work on in sessions

Build two lines of interpretation from a guiding question
Analyse a poem: metre, rhyme, imagery and effects
Write a complete introduction to a commentary
Argue using examples from the works studied

From questions to commentary

At collège, the text came with its questions. In Seconde, students have to find for themselves what there is to say: it is a change of stance, not just of level.

Versification, often skimmed

Counting syllables, spotting a caesura, naming a rhyme: these technical tools are expected at the bac, and rarely consolidated at school.

Getting ahead of Première

The French exams fall at the end of Première. Arriving in September with a reliable method leaves the year for the works, not for technique.

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Tutoring in French for Seconde (first year of lycée) from €24 an hour

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Lycée student preparing for the bac de français at his desk, among revision sheets, an exercise book, open textbooks and notes for the written and oral exams.

School success and study choices

French bac exam (bac de français): a complete method for the written and the oral

To prepare effectively for the bac de français (the French exam taken at the end of Première), you need to work on three dimensions in parallel: the method for the written exercises, precise knowledge of the works and texts studied, and regular oral practice. Rereading your notes is not enough. In the written exam, the student must be able to build a commentary or an essay within a time limit; in the oral, they must explain a text, answer a grammar question and then defend a chosen work. Preparation should begin during the Première year, with short practice sessions that gradually become timed. The aim is not to learn model answers by heart, but to become able to draw on the right knowledge alone when faced with a new topic or extract.

Sébastien Lochon23 October 202616 min read

A student building a revision schedule with a planner, exercise books, textbooks and highlighters at her desk before a test.

Methods and revision

How to build a realistic revision schedule before a test

A realistic revision schedule starts from the exact content to master, not from a number of hours. List the concepts, sort them by how well you know them, spread recall and exercises across the slots you genuinely have available, and test yourself in conditions close to the real test. Always leave a little slack to absorb the unexpected.

Sébastien Lochon23 October 202610 min read

Two focused children writing in their exercise books at a wooden table, in warm natural light.

Private tutoring

How many hours of private tutoring a week does a student need?

How often to have private tutoring depends on the goals: 1 weekly session is enough for regular follow-up or a targeted difficulty, while 2 or more sessions may be needed to catch up on a significant gap or prepare for an approaching deadline. Effectiveness rests on regularity, targeting and the student’s own work between sessions.

Émilie Zajdman23 October 20269 min read

Frequently asked questions

Your questions about tutoring in French for Seconde (first year of lycée)

Does Seconde count towards the bac French exams?

Not directly, but it is the year when commentary and the essay are learned. Students who master them by June start Première with a real head start.

How can a student improve at textual commentary in Seconde?

By working on one extract per session: spotting the devices, grouping them into lines of interpretation, writing a paragraph. The tutor corrects the structure as much as the content.

Should the set works be read in advance?

For the complete works studied at school, yes: knowing them before they are taught at school means sessions can be spent on analysis rather than summary.

What is the difference between a commentary and a line-by-line analysis?

The commentary organises the reading into lines of interpretation; the line-by-line analysis follows the text sentence by sentence, for the oral. Both are learned from Seconde.

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